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I’m sure the VPN industry will bring a lot of money to bear to ensure this doesn’t happen. They like the online safety act itself, because it brings them customers, but if it also causes them to face issues they’re going to be less keen on it.

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy theory if everybody already knows it.

What you said there, that was just a fact.

Even if they go that route, and frankly I think they would get lynched before we got to that point, they can’t monitor every single connection. That just way too much traffic.

That’s why China has a firewall, because that’s the best option they can come up with because monitoring every Chinese persons data is an impossible task. Their only option would be to go North Korea route, and just close the internet but that would basically end their economy.

Do the government ministers understand that setting up your own VPN is literally a 5 minute operation.

Of course they don’t. Most of them type with their index fingers and don’t even understand what a VPN is.

To be honest I’m pretty certain that none of them have actually read the 1984 they dont strike me as being particularly book orientated.

I think Argentina was already there, but I get your point.

The problem is politicians tend to live in bubbles where they are protected from the consequences of their own actions and often are old and not particularly tech-savvy. So they get pulled in by things like AI and blockchain because they sound like having your cake and eating it.

The AI techbros go to them and promise them the world, they make it sound so great that the philosophers stone would be less attractive. The eagerly lap all this nonsense up and then we get announcements about pre-crime or something.

Are they?

This is the first I’m hearing about it and also it doesn’t sound very likely, I’ve never heard of anyone working longer than 12 hour days and that’s only in very particular industries.

The BBC has been run as a business now and it’s absolutely stupid. It was never meant to make a profit that was never really the point. It was supposed to be a public service and a projection of soft power, that seems to have gone out to the window now.

I suspect a lot of the work at the BBC don’t actually agree with this, but management don’t listen to anyone.

I don’t know though papers like the daily mail will rags even back in the 90s. Those people will never journalists.

Historical evidence would seem to suggest that Intel very much do like their blood money I would imagine they would like some more please.

That’s irrelevant because as far as I know you don’t actually have to have the car in the garage to be able to charge it you can put the charger on the outside if you want.

Also I don’t know how it is in America but my garage is literally too small for the car, I can just about get it in there but then I’m stuck because I can’t open the door far enough to get out.

You could build a circle of satellites on the dawn dusk line, just have them do polar orbits. I think there’s such a thing as a solar stationary orbit.

The thing is, 25 years isn’t really that far in the future. Not when you count all the lead in time. Firstly you have to invent the microwave power transmission array, that’s probably going to take it a decade, and that’s been optimistic, then you’ve somehow got to arrange to launch hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of solar power satellites, then you have to figure out a way for the satellites to transmit the energy to the transmission array, and you have to build the receiving array on earth.

It took them 10 months just to build our companies new building, and it’s the most generic thing you’ve ever seen. How are they going to do all this in 25 years?

Yeah this article is severely lacking in any concrete details.

I’d also like to know how exactly it is that they plan to deploy massive arrays of solar panels to space. Most earth-based solar farms are huge and take up entire fields, some are a few kilometres across in size. That’s many orders of magnitude more massive than anything we’ve previously ever launched.

Plus whatever power transmission system they come up with would have to be powerful to be of any use but if it’s that powerful would present an active danger and would effectively constitute a space-based weapon system.

It’s a cool sci-fi idea but it is all pie in the sky.

Google literally never gave it a chance, no one ever got access to the damn things I don’t think anyone was even given the opportunity to write apps or even looking to how to theoretically do that.

Same with wave, it was drowned in the bath after only a couple of months of existence, who knows what it could have turned into.

The Gap between peoples opinion towards AI in everyday life vs people on Lemmy is massive and a good indicator that Lemmy is astroturfed

By who? Your conspiracy theory makes no sense. Why would anyone want to do that.

There isn’t propaganda against AI, it’s totally grassroots because companies are overselling it.